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Good evening everybody! Today we started our day with a city tour of Prague. The first half of the tour was done while riding on a bus and in case you were wondering; yes Ron and I are the youngest cruisers. Anyhow I found out today that Prague is known as the "City of Golden Spires" because they have so many churches. The guide said most of the …

Our visit to Terezin Concentration Camp took most of our day. I think we all felt a bit of trepidation as we traveled by van to the site. The visit begins at the Hapsburg fortress, built in th elate 1700's to protect the area from the German states. After the annexation of the Sudetenland,the Germans used the fortress as a prison for political …

Today we took a tour of Terezin. Our guide from yesterday rode the bus with us about 60 km North, talking the whole way about Terezin and other aspects of the Holocaust and World War II. Once we got there he handed us off to another tour guide that only does tours of Terezin.

Thousands of Jews were processed through this old fort, many never leaving it. It was an old fortress which was repurposed when the magnitude of the task of transporting and executing Jews became evident. There are actually two parts of the fortress, the main and the small. The small one was basically set up as a typical fort converted to a prison …

Our first morning up early so we could take a day trip to Terezin. We hired a car and driver to take us.

Our first stop was at the Lesser Fortress, a Czech fort converted to a prison camp by the Germans in WWII. Horrific numbers of people died at the camp because of the overcrowding, lack of nutrition and work conditions. The cemetery …

Early start after a terrific sleep. Today we went on a guided tour of the Terezin Concentration camp. I've read so much about Europe during WW11 and the atrocities of the camps that I couldn't miss the chance to do this tour. The overwhelming feeling I came away with was sadness and horror of what humans are capable of doing to each other. It's one …

Prague is cold. I mean really freezing cold. I was cold all day during our morning at the old town square and at the Terezin Concentration Camp. There was no warmer part of the day - it was just cold all the way through.

We started in the cold and headed to the Old Town Square. We took the trollies there, which seems to be what most people …

Early morning today. Off to see Terezin, which to all you WWII history buffs is a German Transit camp. The Germans would keep prisoners here for slave labour before sending them off to one of the major concentration camps. Just like Auschwitz, Terezin is an eye opening experience. Deplorable conditions and some of the most depressing scenes any …

We did survive the night, but it had been extremely cold. We were awake quite a lot, but nothing untoward occurred. We woke up rather chilly to a mildly dripping roof and incessant drizzle outside.And then suddenly, from nowhere, a deep rasping breathing sort of noise. What was it? Maybe something going wrong with our gas supply? When the sound …

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